A Great Big Thank You from Kirsten
“I would just like to say a great big thank you to everyone who supported, donated generally wished me well for my London Marathon run.”
Tension Between Immigration Law And Children In Need
Immigrant families who find themselves excluded from benefits as a result of the government clampdown on what they see as benefit tourists raises issues for… Read More »Tension Between Immigration Law And Children In Need
Court Rules Boy To Stay With Killer’s Father
A case where the judge ruled that a child should live with his paternal grandparents, even though his father was found guilty of killing his… Read More »Court Rules Boy To Stay With Killer’s Father
Children born through surrogacy who lack a court’s parental order could become ‘stateless and parentless’ with birth mother remaining legal parent – warns High Court judge.
Mrs Justice Theis has warned when speaking at a conference ‘Surrogacy Symposium’ in London, that failure by parents to obtain parental orders in respect of… Read More »Children born through surrogacy who lack a court’s parental order could become ‘stateless and parentless’ with birth mother remaining legal parent – warns High Court judge.
Judge urges couple to stop ‘boxing match’ divorce proceedings and settle their differences as legal costs have soared to £1million
Ekaterina Parfenova, 42, beauty queen and actress and her husband Richard Fields, 59, an international lawyer based in Miami married in 2002 and have two… Read More »Judge urges couple to stop ‘boxing match’ divorce proceedings and settle their differences as legal costs have soared to £1million
Does Child or Spousal Maintenance affect Universal Credit?
What is Universal Credit? Universal Credit was introduced by the government in 2012 and has already been introduced in many areas. Universal Credit is a… Read More »Does Child or Spousal Maintenance affect Universal Credit?
Curran v Collins [2015] – woman unable to establish beneficial interest in her former partner’s properties or business after 33 year relationship.
When couples divorce, businesses and properties (regardless of whose name they are in) form part of the assets to be shared and are a central… Read More »Curran v Collins [2015] – woman unable to establish beneficial interest in her former partner’s properties or business after 33 year relationship.
Growing number of grandparents are seeking help and advice after being denied access to their grandchildren
There are many grandparents, who for a variety of reasons, are stopped from seeing their grandchildren and the effect of this can be devastating. Earlier… Read More »Growing number of grandparents are seeking help and advice after being denied access to their grandchildren
Wife’s successful appeal for variation of financial order on the basis that husband’s inheritance was a ‘Barder’ event.
A Barder event is a principle that was established in the case of Barder v Barder (Calouri intervening) [1987]. This principle, means that in certain… Read More »Wife’s successful appeal for variation of financial order on the basis that husband’s inheritance was a ‘Barder’ event.
Baby girl should be removed from her mother and live with her father and his boyfriend – Ms Justice Russell rules.
The main issue in this case was over the nature of the parents’ agreement when the child was conceived. The mother stated that they had… Read More »Baby girl should be removed from her mother and live with her father and his boyfriend – Ms Justice Russell rules.